Many business owners on the verge of financial ruin probably are loath to close the book on their companies. Yet, for long-term Nagoya resident Marvin Harvest, endeavors to write the ending to his 10-year business have dragged on like a bad saga.
"I've been trying to go out of business for the past 18 months," said Harvest, who, together with his wife Hiroko, has been running a secondhand bookstore, The Book Rack, in Nagoya for the past decade.
While poor health has been the ultimate reason for the 68-year-old American's decision to shut up shop, he also laments a largely fickle foreign population in Nagoya and rapidly changing demographics in and around the city.
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